Tectonic Grounds: The Kinetic Australian Landscape

United Make / MSD / Cube Zero

Tectonic Grounds explores the blurring between the physical and digital landscapes that we will navigate in the future.

United Make, in collaboration with Melbourne School of Design students and Cube Zero, will build an interactive forest redefining the Australian natural landscape at night with a focus on the question “What is natural today?” The forest will be rigged with light sensors, arduinos, stepper motors, laser cut ‘flowers’ and mechanical gears that will bloom and react to the lightest touch, or light from our phones.

Their digital and mechanical reinterpretation of the Australian landscape will start to question the idea of what is natural and unnatural. With kinetic motion, it will excite minds in a landscape of weird, wonderful spectacle.

About United Make / MSD / Cube Zero

United Make (UDMK), Melbourne School of Design and Cube Zero are a collective of architects, designers, makers and students that explore the fantastical possibilities of tomorrow through immersive installations and experiences.

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